Publications
HOUSE CORPORATION HEROES
Robert E. Manley, Manley Burke The unsung heroes of the Greek world are officers and trustees of house corporations. The typical house corporation owns land and a building occupied by a fraternity chapter. The officers and trustees have special duties...
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BLACK FACE CONTROVERSY REDUX
Timothy M. Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com Two of the University of Virginia's oldest fraternities - Zeta Psi and Kappa Alpha - hosted a Halloween party in 2002 at which at least three costumed students painted their faces black or brown....
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44 INDIVIDUALS SUED IN DEATH OF PLEDGE
Timothy M. Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com Two years ago, in December of 2000, Terry Sterling died, allegedly as a result of choking on his own vomit after a bout of binge drinking. Sterling had been a freshman at Old Dominion...
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NEVADA DROWNING LEADS TO HAZING CHARGES
Timothy M. Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com At approximately 2:00 a.m. on October 10th, Albert Jerome Refuerzo Santos drowned in Manzanita Lake at the University of Nevada Reno. Santos was a freshman pledge of Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. Published reports indicate...
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FIRST AMENDMENT PERMITS MUSLIMS TO EXCLUDE WOMEN
Timothy M. Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com The Nation of Islam held a "Men's Meeting on Black on Black Crime, Violence and Drugs in Communities of Color" in the City of Boston-owned McCormick Center. Louis Farrakhan was the principal speaker. Women...
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MIT -- THE FRATERNITY SETTLEMENT EMPHASIZES EDUCATION AND PREVENTION
Timothy M. Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com Scott Kruger died at the age of 18 during his freshman year at the Massachusettes Institute of Technology. He attended a Phi Gamma Delta party where he was a pledge and consumed alcohol to...
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NEW IRS PUBLICATION ON FRATERNITY FOUNDATION GRANTS
Barbara Schwartz Bromberg, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP Introduction: In October, 2002, the National Office of the Internal Revenue Service released its annual Continuing Professional Education (CPE) materials for 2003 relating to tax-exempt organizations. CPE materials are used for training IRS...
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RELATIONSHIP STATEMENTS ARKANSAS STYLE -- NO WOMEN NEEDED
Timothy M. Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com Relationship statements or expectation documents developed by universities are frequently a mixed bag. Many of the standards these documents seek to implement are in and of themselves innocuous and do not necessarily place major...
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COUNTERPOINT: RELATIONSHIP STATEMENTS AS AN EFFORT TO USURP CONTROL
James C. Harvey The November 2002 issue of Fraternal Law featured an article by Holiday Hart McKiernan of Alpha Chi Omega on the subject of relationship statements. Ms. McKiernan recommended that Greek-letter groups cooperate with their host universities in developing...
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